main-tackle pendant

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• main-tackle

  A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...

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• top-tackle pendant

  The pendant used with the above. The top-mast is swayed up by a top-rope or hawser. The pendant, whi...

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• winding-tackle pendant

  A strong rope made fast to the lower mast-head, and forming the support of the winding-tackle. ...

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• Pendant

  ·noun A <<Pendulum>>. II. Pendant ·noun The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended. II...

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• pendant

  A strop or short piece of rope fixed on each side, under the shrouds, upon the heads of the main and...

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• Tackle

  ·noun To supply with tackle. II. Tackle ·noun To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem. II...

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• tackle

  A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mi...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• tackle

  A horse's harness. Provincial in various parts of England. TO TACKLE 1) To tackle a horse, is to h...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• tackle

  A purchase formed by the connection of a fall, or rope, with two or more blocks. When a power sustai...

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• Main

  ·adj Vast; huge. II. Main ·noun A main-hamper. III. Main ·adj Important; necessary. IV. Main ·nou...

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• main

  very; main good, very good. Also the chief; madam's the main, i. e. madam is the chief or ruler. C. ...

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• main

  A continent or mainland. Also, figuratively, the ocean. ...

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• distinguishing pendant

  In fleets and squadrons, instead of hoisting several flags to denote the number of the ship on the l...

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• gurnet-pendant

  A rope, the thimble of which is hooked to the quarter-tackle of the main-yard; it is led through a h...

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• reef-pendant

  A rope going through a cringle in the after-leech of a boom main-sail, and through a check sheave-ho...

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• truss-pendant

  That part of a rope-truss into which the truss-tackle blocks are seized. ...

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• Fish-tackle

  ·noun A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used ...

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• Top-tackle

  ·noun A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast. ...

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• cat-tackle

  A strong tackle, used to draw the anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head, which latter is sometim...

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• deck-tackle

  A purchase led along the decks. ...

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• fish-tackle

  A tackle employed to hook and draw up the flukes of a ship's anchor towards the top of the bow, afte...

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• fore-tackle

  A tackle on the fore-mast, similar to the main-tackle (which see). It is used for similar purposes, ...

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• ground-tackle

  A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are e...

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• hoisting-tackle

  A whip, a burton, or greater purchase, as yard-arm tackles, &c. ...

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• jigger-tackle

  A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block, and used by seamen on sundry occasions abo...

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• luff-tackle

  A purchase composed of a double and single block, the standing end of the rope being fast to the sin...

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• quarter-tackle

  A strong tackle fixed occasionally upon the quarter of the main-yard, to hoist heavy bodies in or ou...

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• spike-tackle and cant-falls

  The ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship. ...

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• tackle-fall

  The part hauled upon in any tackle, simple or compound. ...

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• tail-tackle

  A luff-tackle purchase, with a hook in the end of the single block, and a tail to the upper end of t...

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• top-tackle

  A large tackle, or properly pendant, hooked to the lower end of the top-mast top-rope, and to the de...

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• train-tackle

  A tackle which is during action hooked to an eye-bolt in the train of a gun-carriage, and to a ring-...

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• truss-tackle

  A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast...

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• watch-tackle

  A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...

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• winding-tackle

  A tackle formed of one fixed triple three-sheaved block, and one double or triple movable block. It ...

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• Main yard

  ·- The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. ...

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• Main-gauche

  ·noun The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; — used to parry thru...

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• Main-hamper

  ·noun A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press. ...

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• Main-sail

  (Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...

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• main-body

  The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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• main-boom

  The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• main-brace

  A purchase attached to the main-yard for trimming it to the wind. ...

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• main-breadth

  The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...

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• main-capstan

  The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan. ...

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• main-course

  The main-sail. ...

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• main-guard

  The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place. ...

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• main-hold

  That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch. ...

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• main-ice

  A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...

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• main-jeers

  Jeers for swaying up the main-yard. ...

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• main-keel

  The principal keel, as distinguished from the false-keel and the keelson. ...

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• main-piece

  The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...

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• main-post

  The stern-post, as distinguished from the false-post and inner-post. ...

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• main-sail

  This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...

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• main-shaft

  The principal shaft in machinery. ...

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• main-spring

  The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...

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• main-staysail

  A storm-sail set between the fore and main masts. ...

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• main-transom

  A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see). ...

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• main-wales

  The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...

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• boom-brace pendant

  A rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, and leading down on deck; it is used to co...

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• clear the pendant

  See up and clear the pendant. ...

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• hoisting the pendant

  Commissioning a ship. ...

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• anchor-stock tackle

  A small tackle attached to the upper part of the anchor-stock when stowing the anchor, its object be...

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• gun-tackle purchase

  A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...

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• half-watch tackle

  A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.) ...

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• racking a tackle or laniard

  The fastening two running parts together with a seizing, so as to prevent it from rendering through ...

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• reef-tackle span

  Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used. ...

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• shifting a tackle

  The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...

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• top burton-tackle

  See burton. ...

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• coup de main

  A sudden and vigorous attack. ...

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• main royal-mast

  That above the main topgallant-mast. ...

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• main-sail haul!

  The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking. ...

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• main-tack block

  A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to. ...

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• main-top bowline

  The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...

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• main-topsail haul!

  The order used instead of main-sail haul, when the main-sail is not set. ...

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• main-yard men

  Those in the doctor's list. ...

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• square main-sail

  See main-sail. ...

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• up-and-down tackle

  A purchase used in bowsing down the eyes of the lower rigging over the mast-heads; lifting objects f...

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• fill the main-yard

  An order well understood to mean, fill the main-topsail, after it has been aback, or the ship hove-t...

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• splice the main brace

  In nautical parlance, to serve out an extra allowance of grog in bad weather or after severe exertio...

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• Tackle House and Ticket Porters

  This Fellowship possessed the right of porterage of all unmeasurable goods, that of measureable good...

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• feeding-part of a tackle

  That running through the sheaves, in opposition to the standing part. ...

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• running part of a tackle

  Synonymous with the fall, or that part on which the man power is applied to produce the intended eff...

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• standing part of a tackle or rope

  The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...

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• main-piece of the rudder

  The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...

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• mate of the main-deck

  The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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• stay-tackles, fore and main

  Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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• as deaf as the main-mast

  Said of one who does not readily catch an order given. Thus at sea the main-mast is synonymous with ...

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• haul aboard the fore and main tacks

  This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side. ...

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